Extraterritoriality and Collective Redress

Edited by Duncan Fairgrieve and Eva Lein

Identifies the challenges that cross-border mass litigation poses to the traditional approach to conflicts of law issues, and considers their impact

Expert contributors from across Europe, and from the US and Canada, provide practical insight and authoritative commentary

Deals with issues of current debate, which are of interest to legislators, to inform and impact law-making on a national and international level

Examines possible solutions, such as reform of international or European norms

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Edited by Duncan Fairgrieve and Eva Lein

Description

An expert analysis of the relevant law and jurisprudence in mass litigation, this edited work examines the diverse and complex transnational considerations and issues of collective redress. With contributions from distinguished and authoritative commentators on this topic, the coverage is broad, thorough, and practically focused.

The book offers new perspectives on the challenges of collective redress as it innovatively combines a comparative and cross border approach. Organized clearly into sections, it provides in-depth comment on these challenges from a national, European, and global perspective.

With detailed analysis of the relevant law and jurisprudence in this area offering a significant practical impact, this book also examines possible solutions to the challenges identified, covering important topics and issues within collective redress mechanisms; the private international law perspective on collective redress; reception of foreign collective redress; and extraterritoriality and US law.

Including contributions from the jurisdictions most relevant to these conflict of laws issues, this book unites global expertise to provide information on a complex topic and offer a solution-based approach to the collective redress landscape.

Extraterritoriality and Collective Redress

Edited by Duncan Fairgrieve and Eva Lein

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By Professor John Sorabji (Hon) Collective action reform in England and Wales was first seriously mooted twenty five years ago. From the perspective of proponents of the opt-out form of collective action (i.e., a form of collective proceedings where all the potential claimants are automatically represented in the proceedings unless they explicitly choose not to be), nothing of substance has been achieved since then.